By Neil Cameron Crimson – the London-based litigation AI startup LITI readers will know as the disputes-focused tenant in A&O Shearman’s Fuse incubator – today announces an oversubscribed $2.5m seed […]
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Pinterest Targets Patent in New PTAB Challenge, IPR2026-00366
Pinterest, Inc. has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00366 on May 22, 2026. For patent litigators and in-house IP teams, the filing is worth watching not only for the substantive patentability issues it may raise, but also for what it could signal about Pinterest’s broader litigation and defensive patent strategy.
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AAA's New VP of AI Governance Talks Common Tech Policy Missteps
The American Arbitration Association’s newly appointed vice president of AI governance and integration lead Jennifer Reeves discusses why some organizations are falling short in how they execute AI policy.
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What Exactly Is an AI-Native Law Firm?
A growing number of new firms are calling themselves “AI-native,” but what that term means depends on who you ask.
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Texas Court Backs Judge’s Religious Objection to Same-Sex Weddings
A Texas state court has ruled that a judge may decline to perform same-sex marriages based on sincerely held religious beliefs, a closely watched decision at the intersection of judicial ethics, equal-treatment principles, and religious-liberty protections. The case stems from disciplinary action against Justice of the Peace Dianne Hensley, who challenged a public warning issued by the Texas Commission on…
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Legal Professionals Increasingly See AI as a Job Generator
Ironclad’s 2026 State of AI in Legal report finds that many legal professionals have an optimistic outlook on AI’s impact on the job market despite the uncertainty around AI’s long-term impact on employment in the U.S.
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Darrow, the ‘AI Lab for Legal Risk,’ Launches a Platform to Let Plaintiffs’ Firms Manage Litigation Like an Investment Portfolio
By Bob Ambrogi
The legal system has a blind spot, often failing to recognize risk until a lawsuit is filed. By that point, it is too late to mitigate and the only course is to react.
That is the premise of Darrow, a company that built its early reputation by scanning the web to surface potential class actions.
This month, Darrow launched…
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In Banning AI, Is Berkeley Law Shortchanging Its Students — and Endangering their Future Clients?
By Bob Ambrogi
UC Berkeley School of Law has adopted one of the most restrictive student AI policies of any top law school, barring the use of generative AI for nearly every step of producing graded work — and prohibiting it outright in any exam. The policy takes effect this summer.
The rule, which the school released last week, forbids the use…
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DOJ Spotlights Financial Fraud and RICO Violence in Two High-Stakes Criminal Matters
The Department of Justice has recently underscored two of its core criminal-enforcement priorities: large-scale financial fraud and organized violent crime. In one matter, financier Greg Lindberg was sentenced to 12 years in prison in connection with bribery and a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme tied to his business empire. In another, federal prosecutors in Indianapolis unsealed a sweeping RICO indictment against 12…
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The May Orange Rag Is Here!
May has been an extraordinary month in terms of announcements, and one that has had law firms and legal organisations across the board rethinking their AI strategies, again. We’ve had the launch of Claude […]
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From AI Adoption to AI Systems: How Legal Technology Is Moving from Assistance to Structure
By knovos
What We Mean by AI Systems in Legal
The previous year witnessed worldwide increase in the embrace of AI, showcasing a significant surge on artificial intelligence, making it an obvious inclusion rather than upcoming advancement in legal tech. According to Deloitte AI in-house predictions legal firms are moving from AI experimentation to AI value, considering prominent efficiency beyond cost and productivity.
In simple terms, it means structured AI solutions built for legal teams, helping them work smarter, faster, and more accurately. Instead of generic AI-assistance chatbots, AI-systems are purpose-built engines helping legal firms handle complexity from research to discovery…
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Berkeley Law Implements AI Ban
“The challenge for law schools is to teach students how to effectively use AI, but to prevent it from being used to cheat on exams or papers, said Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, adding that the school is looking to “do both by incorporating it into the legal writing classes and offering courses about AI and the law.
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Pinterest Targets Recommendation Patent in Newly Filed IPR2026-00365
Pinterest, Inc. has filed a new inter partes review petition, IPR2026-00365, at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on May 22, 2026. The proceeding puts another PTAB spotlight on the increasingly important area of platform recommendation and content-delivery technology—an area where social media, e-commerce, and advertising companies continue to face significant patent assertion risk.
At this stage, the publicly…
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When It Comes to Your Personal Brand, Don't Let AI Flatten Your Voice
“Editing your LLM output doesn’t have to be any different than how your English teacher hurt you with that red pen, said Tanya Svoboda, senior content manager at Workday. “You are not a prompt.
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CEOs Face Career Risk, Regulatory Roadblocks Amid Fragmented Governance of AI, Study Finds
Chief executives are aggressively tying their tenure to generative artificial intelligence, but a lack of operational control, widespread use of unauthorized “shadow AI” and multiplying legal risks have left leadership structurally exposed.
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